How much money would one presume 5 beers would that it would cover this many beers? Even if you're buying at a local convenience store or at your local alcohol store this would be around $50? Who walks up to a place, sees an order of what they assume is 5 beers for that price and thinks, "Yeah that's a fair price."

I came here to say there was probably a context clue or three, namely the price.

I don't know this fella, but he is either so out of touch with how much things cost that he doesn't pay even the slightest attention, or (gasp) he is making up a story for the Internet.

Looks to be about 90 beers and they're all tall boys. Don't know where you're from, but at the cheapest -we're talking dog piss beer or malt liquor- around here, that'd be at least $150. I imagine the markup at a ski lodge would make it at least double that. Your point still stands. OP gotta be full of shit.

I mean, going skiing costs an arm and a leg to begin with. $10 for a large beer at the mountain doesn't sound outrageous to me.

Ten bucks? Oh for beer to be so cheap at a ski lodge, haha.

Those are 90's prices.

so out of touch with how much things cost that he doesn't pay even the slightest attention

I live in high-end tourist destination and encounter these people all the time.

“It's one banana, Michael, how much could it cost? 10 dollars?”

Counterpoint: a lot of people on ski slopes make enough money to legitimately not even concern themselves with prices

Where I'm at they won't let you leave the lodge with alcohol. I wonder if this is just a random shop at the base selling this to cover the needs of a group of mates for a long weekend or something.

Depends on where you go. Vail and Icon own most resorts and are expensive af. But there are more locally owned places where prices are still reasonable as of a month ago.

Just order two now or the line won't be worth when you have to go back.

Lawson's. Nice

Less than $5/beer at a ski lodge would be unheard of, so this is like $450+. They thought one beer was $90??

How much for a flight?

I mean if it’s in Utah it’s the equivalent of 5 regular beers.

Waterville Valley is in NH, and that sled is full of Lawson's, made in VT and some of the best beer in the Northeast.

Isn't that because Utah has weird laws about how many drinks you're allowed to order? I seem to remember hearing that bar patrons are only allowed to get one drink at a time, so bars just started getting bigger mugs.

TIL. I’ll keep an eye out next time I’m in the area.

They also have hard limits on APV of drinks. I forget what it is but it’s something low like 4%. I don’t go there much but my friend is a ski fanatic and regularly makes trips out there.

1. I don't know where you are that a sled full of beers looks like $50. I don't think I could even get that many Coors banquets for $50.
2. Beers at a brewery or stadium can easily be $10-20 each. I wouldn't be surprised to find similar prices at a ski lodge.

An entire state making laws based on imaginary sky daddy. Fucking crazy shit.

A lot of states have weird laws like this. Connecticut also doesn't allow you to have more than one drink at a time (at least last I knew) so if you and your friends order a shot and a beer they pour the round of shots, wait until you've all finished them, then give you the beers.

$12 with inflation

CT did away with that a long time ago afaik. Grew up there, never had that happen to me but my father remembers that. They could also go to the bars at 18...

That face: “I may have miscalculated.”

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Jesus fucking christ.

It’s 5% ABV that’s the limit for most grocery/convenience stores, with higher content being available at liquor stores and licensed establishments (like bars). I always bring my own alcohol if I’m skiing, so idk which category a resort would fall under.

It used to be limited to 4% ABV for beers outside liquor stores, but they changed that a few years ago when beer producers decided they didn’t wanna make a special kind for Utah anymore and threatened to just leave the Utah market outright.

he is making up a story for the Internet.

Or for his wife. "I swear babe, I thought it was only like, 5 beers! Oh well, now that we paid for it..."

As long as there's snow, sure. I'm literally in a ski town right now that got fucked because of this. But don't worry, climate change is just a hoax...

Yeah this isn’t the kind of thing you just bring to the table and drop it off. There has to be some minimal discussion regarding logistics occurring here. Sorry to be the nothing ever happens guy.

I think it's fake or they are idiots, or billionaires or both.

I don't know how but I think all those are true.

Those beers are available at my local store and they're about $20 for a 4-pack...

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I would imagine they serve wine too. (I would hope hard liquor too but maybe not?)

In some states like CA, you have either a beer and wine license, or the full liquor license, for places where you are being served (as opposed to a store where you are buying and drinking off site.)
Even in Utah I can’t imagine the ski resorts only serve beer and not wine. But maybe?

Also I thought all the Mormons for high on ultra high sugar content sodas?

No chaser for your shot. That’s a good way to get people vomiting.

Also with a beer on the side, you could drink the shot more slowly. Dumb policy.

Same sky daddy as all the bank holidays, private school charter programs, on the money and in the pledge of allegiance, trusted to enforce truth in a courtroom, anti-gay laws of all stripes, all this nonsense, and uncountable other ways in which Christian supremacy is the presumed default in western (and especially American) culture.

It's very possible. This was quite a few years ago at one of the casinos, so they may have different laws there (Native territory, I think).

Yessir

Not necessarily billionaires, but people with too much money do tend to congregate around ski lodges, and spend money willy-nilly to impress other idiots.

5 beers are just a pocket stash for a ski day. You don't need a sled until you are well past backpack capacity, which is almost a full case in my experience.

They actually served real beer on the mountain the last time I was there.

Also, above 6000 feet or so the effects of alcohol are almost 2x, and utah has many peaks in the 8000-10,000 range, which is why it's important to always drink on the lift.

Just pointing out that the crazy shit is regrettably not confined to one state's laws.

Friendly reminder that the Mormons tried to claim as far as fucking LA and San Bernardino. Their state containment zone was narrowed down till it got to the point where the army could theoretically exterminate them if need be.

Sadly most of the world is still making laws around imaginary sky daddy, hopefully younger generations move away from this sillyness and learn to think for themselves

I mean you’re probably right but at least for where I live, your numbers are WAY off. Looks like this is four 24 packs, which where I live goes for around $60 on the cheap end. So that’s $240 at a minimum. Assuming they do a bulk discount, maybe an even $200 if it’s cheap beer. On the other extreme, basically any restaurant here charges $9-10 for standard domestic beer, and obviously more for imported or premium. So that’s looking at close to $1,000 for all that. A bundle discount might bring it down to $900 or $850 or something. And then I guess you could go even further and talk about higher end beers which are oftentimes $20 here, or more probably too. So double the previous numbers.

All that’s to say, even on the low end of $200, that’s still nuts for 5 beers. That would be $40 per beer, which even high end at a specialty restaurant I wouldn’t expect to see that high. Hell, even at a stadium, I think I’ve only seen as high as $25-30 for a single high end beer. I just checked online actually and I could get a 5L keg of Heineken at my local liquor store for $42. And for high end stuff, the most expensive individual beer I could get right now is $34, and that’s for 750ml which is larger than what’s shown in the picture.

Not typically, as serving wine (and I think any drink above 5% ABV) in Utah requires a liquor license. Some resorts like Snowbasin have actual full bars at them, and so can serve cocktails and wine, but most ski resorts for anyone who isn’t rich probably only serve beers.

My take was someone using the photo out of context to make a joke. A sled seems like the easiest way to transport unopened beer a relatively short distance at a ski resort or whatever - maybe it's getting delivered to a wedding reception or function on site.